The Myth of Sex Work

The origin of trafficking has always been about saving women, mostly white women. The Chinese Exclusion Act began as a sex trafficking panic law. Human smuggling is how some enslaved people escaped back in the day. There's also great stories of people smuggling out of Europe when the Nazis came to power. We sort of understand that to be a complicated concept but then we say, oh, it's trafficking, people are being brought here against their will.